Apple issues Aperture bug fix update

If you use Apple's Aperture professional photo management program for OS X, then a new update is available that addresses a number of bugs with the previous release.

The update focuses around managing content from shared photo streams, including detecting faces, managing where streams are shared, and incorporating more cross-stream content management.

In addition to stream focus, the update fixes a number of problems with metadata management, resolution and use of secondary displays, and color profile management. The full list of addressed features is the following:

Photos received via My Photo Stream or shared streams can now be added directly to other shared streams.

Multiple e-mail addresses can now be copied and pasted in the "Shared with" field for shared streams.

When more than five subscribers "Like" a photo in a shared stream, all their names are now displayed correctly.

The Info panel for a shared stream now includes an Unsubscribe button.

The status line in the toolstrip now displays the number of new photos added to a shared stream.

Faces are now properly detected on photos imported into a library from a shared stream.

Adjusted photos added to shared streams are now published with EXIF metadata properly preserved.

Addresses the reliability of Shared Photo Streams when switching between iPhoto and Aperture with the same library.

Custom keyboard shortcuts are now properly preserved when upgrading from earlier versions of Aperture.

Double-clicking a photo in Viewer-Only mode now correctly toggles to the Browser view.

Addresses a problem that could prevent the Viewer from displaying images with correct color after Auto White Balance and Auto Enhance are applied.

Addresses an issue that could cause JPEGs exported with a custom ICC profile to render incorrectly.

A dialog now displays progress when deleting large numbers of photos using the Empty Aperture Trash command.

Fixes a problem that could cause duplicate detection on import to fail when the "Auto-Split Projects" option is enabled.

RAW files are no longer displayed in the Import window when the "JPEG files only" option is enabled.

Key photos made from panoramic images are now displayed at high resolution.

Addresses a problem that could cause the Info panel in the Inspector to display the wrong metadata view.

Fixes an issue that could prevent Microsoft Outlook from being used to e-mail photos from within Aperture.

Improves stability when working with AVCHD video files.

Fixes a problem with using the Zoom navigator on a second display.

Addresses issues that could cause Web journals to export incorrectly.

Includes stability improvements.

The update is 550.73MB in size, and requires OS X 10.7.5, or at least 10.8.2 for Mountain Lion users. It is available through Apple's Software Update service, but can also be downloaded as a standalone installer from the Apple Support Web Site.

As with any update, be sure to fully back up your system before applying it.